Society and attitudes in the 1930s

1930s was hard period for everybody, especially for Americans.

Great Depression, Dustbowl, Alcohol prohibition.

Alcohol prohibition – a national prohibition on the sale, production and transport of alcohol, which was in use in the United States from 1920 to 1933. A lot of people where arrested by illegal transporting the alcohol. The authorities claimed they they where taking care about he health and morale of the nation. At first Prohibition had a beneficial effect on American society. productivity in factories increased; the number of crimes decreased; and the American people became wealthier and healthier. But, how we know, when there is a prohibition, there are ways to get around it. There were a lot of smuggles, who were working clandestinely. Also people where making alcohol by them selfs, and the result of this was mass poisoning.

Well, let’s move on to 1929. when the president Herbert Hoover  was in power, the stock market has crashed. It all influenced the emergence of the Great Depression.

People were investing all their money to the bank, and one day, they lost everything. A lot of people lost everything, their work and state. Bankruptcy has engulfed the whole country. Population were selling everything to get enough money at least for food.

Hundreds of thousands of families were ruined because they could not pay their loans and raise livestock, they abandoned their farms and moved to the Great Depression-stricken cities, where living conditions were still better for them.

1929 is the worth part of my life i could ever imagine. Just not a long time ago I could effort everything me and my family wanted, but now i am staying by the side of the street near my car with plate “100 $ will buy this car “. So, now me and my family are in red, with no way to get out of this poverty. 

Some time ago i was rich, i was leaving in comfortable conditions with roof above my head, and now i am about to go to the poverty under my home.

Last years are hard for everybody. Stock market crash, Great Depression, and the result of it – poverty, unemployment, crises. The reasons were of various kinds – personal, political, social and economic.

I don’t know what will happen to me. My future is uncertain. Unpredictable things – it is only what can I say. I can’t find job, but no, majority can not do this.

I can’t fix anything now, nobody can. Maybe I have to wait, but with time it can be worth. Basically I don’t have money to wait. 

Or now, or never. 

Diary entry of Curley’s wife’s about life on the ranch

Life on the ranch seems very hard for me and the other people. Because of all the males here, I get a lot of pressure from them.

I married Curley not a long time ago, 28 of January, since now – it is exactly one month. I was expecting more from my life. With my body and ambitious, I could easily become a cinema star, but, unfortunately, after I married him, always I am on this ranch, in this dirt with him.

Today I had to spend my time on the ranch, and suddenly I heard some noise from the stable where the black man was living. I and started moving there to check what is going on. Lennie, Crooks and Candy were there. I couldn’t understand why these 3 men, who are absolutely nobody and with no future were here, including me.

Some time past, and I heard: “They left all the weak people here”. I was super angry about how my husband doesn’t care about me, that I am just dirt for him. Even when I was using them where is Curley, answers were cold.

When he comes back from the bar, I want to have a talk with him. I am so tired of the life here, everyday is the same, boring and routine. He is a wet blanket. I will tell him my opportunity’s and that he is not worthy of me. I am gonna find a better husband, who will love and care about me.

These people who were in stable, are inferior people, somebody of them is injured, somebody has low-intelligence. I am again talking on this topic, but you can’t understand my feelings. Curley is just using me I am so disappointed, and unbelievable furious. I still can’t keep it in my head.